This Might Be the Worst Loss in US Sports History

posted by John Johnson -

5 months ago

The short version is easy enough: Trinidad and Tobago upset the US Mens National Team in soccer Tuesday night, and the 2-1 loss means that the Americans won't qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1986.

But just how bad a loss is this? The defeat is "the most surreal and embarrassing night in US soccer history," writes Grant Wahl forSports Illustrated. "Unthinkable," declares theNew York Times. "With that loss, the USMNT gave a nation the lowest point in its sporting history, and it’s not really close," writes Andrew Joseph forUSA Today.

"It took 90-plus minutes for United States soccer to regress 30 years," writes Frank Isola at the Daily News. The kicker is that twoother games fell the wrong way in unexpected fashion, one on a "phantom goal," sealing the US fate.